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Comments and asks questions about aspects of their familiar world such
as the place where they live or the natural world.
Can talk about some of the things they have observed such as plants,
animals, natural and found objects.
Talks about why things happen and how things work.
Developing an understanding of growth, decay and changes over time.
Shows care and concern for living things and the environment.
Expressive arts and design
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Explores colours and how colours can be changed.
Understands that they can use lines to enclose a space, and then begin
to use these shapes to represent objects.
Beginning to be interested in and describe the texture of things.
Uses various construction materials.
Beginning to construct, stacking blocks vertically and horizontally,
making enclosures and creating spaces.
Joins construction pieces together to build and balance.
Realises tools can be used for a purpose.
Builds stories around toys.
Uses available resources to create props to support their role-play.
Captures experiences and responses with a range of media, such as
music, dance, and paint and other materials or words.
Beauclerc Nursery
Understanding the World
Curriculum Information
Summer Term 2017
Purple Class
Development Matters
Physical Development
During your child’s time within the Nursery we shall be tracking their
progress using ‘Development Matters’. Development Matters helps us to
support your children’s learning and development. We will use these
statements when making judgements about whether a child is showing
typical development for their age. During the Summer Term we shall be
focusing on the following statements.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
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Can play in a group, extending and elaborating play ideas, e.g. building
up a role-play activity with other children.
Initiates play, offering cues to peers to join them.
Keeps play going by responding to what others are saying or doing.
Demonstrates friendly behaviour, initiating conversations and forming
good relationships with peers and familiar adults.
Confident to talk to other children when playing.
Shows confidence in asking adults for help.
Aware of own feelings and knows that some actions and words can hurt
others’ feelings.
Begins to accept the needs of others and can take turns and share
resources, sometimes with support from others.
Communication and language
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Listens to stories with increasing attention and recall.
Shows understanding of prepositions such as ‘under’, ‘on top’, ‘behind’
by carrying out an action or selecting correct picture.
Responds to simple instructions, e.g. to get or put away an object.
Beginning to understand ‘why’ and ‘how’ questions.
Beginning to use more complex sentences to link thoughts (e.g. using
and, because).
Can retell a simple past event in correct order e.g. went downslide, hurt
finger.
Uses talk to connect ideas, explain what is happening and anticipate
what might happen next, recall and relive past experiences.
Questions why things happen and gives explanations. Asks e.g. who,
what, when, how.
Uses range of tenses.
Builds up vocabulary that reflects breadth of their experiences.
Uses talk in pretending that objects stand for something else in play.
‘This box is my castle’.
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Moves freely with confidence in range of ways, such as slithering,
shuffling, rolling, crawling, skipping, and hopping.
Runs skilfully and negotiates space successfully, adjusting speed or
direction to avoid obstacles.
Can catch a large ball.
Observes the effects of activity on their bodies.
Understands that equipment and tools have to be used safely.
Draws lines and circles using gross motor movements.
Uses one-handed tools and equipment, e.g. makes snips in paper with
child scissors.
Holds pencil between thumb and two fingers, no longer using wholehand grasp.
Holds pencil near point between first two fingers and thumb and uses it
with good control.
Can copy some letters, e.g. letters from their name.
Literacy
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Enjoys rhyming and rhythmic activities.
Joins in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events and phrases in
rhymes and stories.
Listens to stories with increasing attention and recall.
Describes main story settings, events and main characters.
Shows interest in illustrations and print in books and the environment.
Recognise familiar words such as own name.
Knows that print carries meaning and, in English, is read from left to right
and top to bottom.
Sometimes gives meaning to marks as they draw and paint.
Mathematics
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Uses some number names accurately in play.
Recites numbers in order to 10.
Knows that numbers identify how many objects are in a set.
Beginning to represent numbers using fingers, marks on paper or
pictures.
Sometimes matches numeral and quantity correctly.
Shows an interest in number problems.
Shows an interest in shape and space by playing with shapes or making
arrangements with objects.
Begins to talk about the shapes of everyday objects, e.g. round/tall